WIP Meme

I normally hate these, but this one looked like fun.

"Turn to page 123 in your work-in-progress. (If you haven't gotten to page 123 yet, then turn to page 23. If you haven't gotten there yet, then get busy and write page 23.) Count down four sentences and then instead of just the fifth sentence, give us the whole paragraph."

Page 123 of Abigail's Dragon, from the fifth sentence paragraph; [note I added the line before and after just for clarity and because I can.]

“One question. What does ‘alea iacta est’ mean? The doll said that before I. . .before it died.”

Mrs. Aithne scowled. “It is a Latin phrase attributed to Julius Ceaser. He fought a long war in Gaul away from Rome. The Senate was jealous of his power and declared him a traitor to the state. He marched on Rome with his army. It was illegal for him to cross the Rubicon River with an army. When he crossed, he said that. Alea iacta est. It means the die is cast.”

“What does that mean?” Clara asked.

“It means that Nixx Ignatius has declared war.”

WIP Meme

I normally hate these, but this one looked like fun.

"Turn to page 123 in your work-in-progress. (If you haven't gotten to page 123 yet, then turn to page 23. If you haven't gotten there yet, then get busy and write page 23.) Count down four sentences and then instead of just the fifth sentence, give us the whole paragraph."

Page 123 of Abigail's Dragon, from the fifth sentence paragraph; [note I added the line before and after just for clarity and because I can.]

“One question. What does ‘alea iacta est’ mean? The doll said that before I. . .before it died.”

Mrs. Aithne scowled. “It is a Latin phrase attributed to Julius Ceaser. He fought a long war in Gaul away from Rome. The Senate was jealous of his power and declared him a traitor to the state. He marched on Rome with his army. It was illegal for him to cross the Rubicon River with an army. When he crossed, he said that. Alea iacta est. It means the die is cast.”

“What does that mean?” Clara asked.

“It means that Nixx Ignatius has declared war.”

(no subject)

Today has been a good business writing day.

The artist for Into the Dreamlands has agreed to the t-shirts. I'm waiting for my rest run on it before I continue.

All but one of the author's for Into the Dreamlands have been paid. I made all of the last revisions and sent it to the final copyeditor. It is being processed as I type this.

And I went through my submission spreadsheet and start submitted more lost souls among my stories.

My beautiful wife is going out of town next weekend, so I will be locked up and writing finishing Abigail's Dragon. I should cap out around 85,000, which places it in good domain for both YA and Fantasy.

(no subject)

Today has been a good business writing day.

The artist for Into the Dreamlands has agreed to the t-shirts. I'm waiting for my rest run on it before I continue.

All but one of the author's for Into the Dreamlands have been paid. I made all of the last revisions and sent it to the final copyeditor. It is being processed as I type this.

And I went through my submission spreadsheet and start submitted more lost souls among my stories.

My beautiful wife is going out of town next weekend, so I will be locked up and writing finishing Abigail's Dragon. I should cap out around 85,000, which places it in good domain for both YA and Fantasy.